The sky sailors
Subtitle: true stories of the balloon era
By: David L. Bristow.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Farrar Straus Giroux
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
ISBN-13: 9780374370145
Subjects: Balloonists -- History -- Juvenile literature; Balloonists -- Biography -- Juvenile literature
Genres: Juvenile literature; Biography
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: The black moon : the first balloon flights (France, 1783); title: Queen of the night sky : Sophie and Jean-Pierre Blanchard (France, 1784-1819); title: Splashdown in Lake Erie : John Steiner (United States, 1857); title: The children are gone! : Martha and David Harvey (United States, 1858); title: The long voyage : the flight of the balloon Atlantic (United States, 1859); title: To the top of the sky : Coxwell and Glaisher's record altitude (United Kingdom, 1862); title: The siege of Paris : the balloon-and-pigeon post (France, 1870-1871); title: The North Pole balloon : Salomon Andree's expedition (Sweden and the Arctic Ocean, 1897); title: Parachute girl : Dolly Shepherd (United Kingdom, 1903-12)